Along with her husband, Dr. Jesse Mooney, she helped establish drugstores in various towns in Oklahoma Territory. Ella Courts Ridley was born in October 1867 in Calloway County, ...

Some church buildings in Oklahoma pre-date the 1889 Land Run and are still standing today. Several still hold worship services.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s top education official is insisting classrooms will all have Bibles by fall, even though the state's Republican-controlled Legislature has no plans to give him the ...

In 1885, Dr. J.E. Wright opened a dental office in Savanna, a coal-mining town south of McAlester in Indian Territory. Courtesy of the Oklahoma Dental Association ...

Julie Mitchell was beaten to death in her Oklahoma City home in 2010. oklahomacoldcases.org “Beggars can’t always be choosers, and this is somebody we wanted to talk to, we needed to talk to.

Oklahoma City, as the author Sam Anderson wrote in his detailed history of the city, “Boom Town,” has an actual birthday: April 22, 1889. That day became known as the Land Run, when what was ...

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters speaks during a special state Board of Education meeting, April 12, 2023, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File) Mark Silk ...

There will be a few firsts on Saturday when No. 6 Tennessee goes to No. 15 Oklahoma. The Sooners will play their first SEC game after joining the league officially on July 1. Josh Heupel will be ...

Several tribes practiced slavery, and five in Oklahoma — The Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Muscogee nations — signed reconstruction treaties with the U.S. in 1866 abolishing it ...

Train enthusiasts young and old enjoy in the magical worlds of backyard railroads. On June 14, the Rose City Garden Railway Society will host its annual summer tour in the Portland metro area.

Former NFL player LaShon Johnson, of Oklahoma, was charged in March in connection with a 190-dog combat ring. Prosecutors wrote that Johnson bred dogs for fights and sold stud rights to buyers.

The same is true for Oklahoma, and many of these historical buildings are still standing today. Here are five of Oklahoma's oldest churches, their histories and where you can find them.